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A Loyalty-Driven Singles’ Day in China Lends Lessons to Sales-Centric Shopping Holidays

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Is the ultimate success metric the number of GMVs garnered in the sales period that can be potentially costly and drive pent-up demand for the short term, or is it building sustainable engagement for their businesses for the years to come? The efforts have yielded record customer engagement. First-time purchases by members increased by 20%.

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Enhancing Business Valuation: Aligning Owner Perception with Market Realities

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The delta between an owner’s expectations and the market’s potential can be considerable and is based on a number of financial and non-financial metrics. This is a critical number used in valuing companies. You can learn how you compare to your competitors and best in class by benchmarking your performance to a peer group.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

00:12:53 [Speaker Changed] I think number one, the team, my team at Goldman and the, a broader team even and the team at Maryland are, are some of my favorite people. New York is number one. It could be off on the wage increase number somewhere around there. What, how do you work around those sort of numbers?

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Transcript: Marta Norton

Barry Ritholtz

So there are a number of us heading in out of college into the BLS. NORTON: Concentrated portfolios or willing to stick our necks out and look different than a benchmark. You know, pretending to be active but mimicking the benchmark because of how big, you know, the big six companies in the U.S. RITHOLTZ: — differences.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. They create the benchmark. RITHOLTZ: How’d you end up at Merrill Lynch in the 1990s? DAVIS: Yes, exactly.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers.